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How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

padmakumariMiriyala — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:54:47 GMT

I have one pdf file , I want to split that pages based on title page content and also need to merge multiple files in to single PDF . How to do in SAS

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

SASKiwi — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 07:16:13 GMT

A combination of ODS DOCUMENT and the DOCUMENT procedure may do what you require. Check out the examples in this link:

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsproc&docsetTarget=n0lzw11swn9gm8n1g6rof0r360wr.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

Reeza — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:24:04 GMT

Install Adobe Professional and then use SAS to generate the commands needed.

You may be able to use scripting commands as well, depending on which OS and what applications you have.

It also depends on where the PDF files originate from. For example, if it's from SAS processes, you could find a way to restructure those so that the files are created consistently.

I did this for some very complicated reporting that required inserting maps, table of contents pages, glossaries etc into automated reports.

Reports are here, for example.

Here are the instructions on how to handle the PDF combinations.

https://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2011/BB15.Welch.pdf

@padmakumariMiriyala wrote:
I have one pdf file , I want to split that pages based on title page content and also need to merge multiple files in to single PDF . How to do in SAS

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

ChrisNZ — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:26:31 GMT

I did this for some very complicated reporting that required inserting maps, table of contents pages, glossaries etc into automated reports.

Reports are here, for example.

That's one impressive report! Very impressive!

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

Reeza — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:08:15 GMT

Thanks!!! The maps and text is also fully automated using SAS and ArcGIS. Developing this reporting methodology eventually changed how all reports were developed allowing the team to move onto modelling instead of constantly generating these types of reports manually.

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

ChrisNZ — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:04:12 GMT

I don't doubt that once this documentation-writing logic was finally in place, the efficiency gains were huge.

Documentation writing is very time-consuming and very error-prone.

Kudos on you for doing this, and on your employer for giving you the time to do something better than the usual urgent, cheap, quick-and-dirty, good-enough-and-let's-move-on job that most employers seem to favour these days.

Re: How to split & Merged PDF pages in SAS required pages

Reeza — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:18:23 GMT

Yeah, the documentation step was a bit of a pain but I'm pretty militant on that 🙂
And fairly good at documenting my code for something that large because I know I won't remember it in a years time.